Baby Talk: Roots Of Early Vocabulary In Infants' Learning From Speech

ScienceDaily (Oct. 31, 2008) — Although babies typically start talking around 12 months of age, their brains actually begin processing certain aspects of language much earlier, so that by the time they start talking, babies actually already know hundreds of words. While studying language acquisition in infants can be a challenging endeavor, researchers have begun to make significant progress that changes previous views of what infants learn, according to a new report by University of Pennsylvania psychologist Daniel Swingley

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070426110153.htm

Non-native Kindergarteners Learn Vocabulary Faster Than Native English-speakers WIth The Right Lessons

ScienceDaily (2007-04-27) -- Analyzing rates of target word acquisition and overall vocabulary development, this study finds that students learning English as a second language pick up general vocabulary more quickly and target vocabulary words at the same rate as native English-speaking kindergarteners with oral instruction, such as storytime.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/07http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070426110153.htm0426110153.htm

Corpus Linguistics-an introduction,Oct 22(dudes, better to use the full-screen mode to get a better read of the script)

http://www.slideshare.net/mindependent/corpus-linguistics-an-introduction

L 1- L2 Acquisition, Oct, 22

http://www.slideshare.net/mindependent/l1-l2

Mates, the first pps show used in our Linguistics class!(1st Oct.)

http://www.slideshare.net/mindependent/introduction-to-the-study-of-language

Language Acquisition- the Age Factor!

Theoretical Linguistics(fig. illustration )